After the hackathon, we'll reach out again, and encourage you to collaborate with other bloggers to put together a post for the Wikimedia's official blog. And, then your write-ups will turn out to be of great help!!

If you have other ideas for how this volunteer group can help and make a positive impact at the event please add them here!!

When writing your piece, consider the blog guidelines, documented by Ed Erhart, that have very good information and examples on what to do and what to avoid. Specially good resource for first-time writers =)

For shared writing of blog posts I recommed http://hackmd.io/ - it's similar to etherpad but Markdown syntax. You should be able to copy the resulting HTML into your blogging software and it can be converted to MediaWiki syntax with pandoc. Anyway collaborative real-time writing is helpful, I'm also fine with Google Docs or Etherpad. We could share links to the editable documents here, can't we?

@Spinster I think the aim is to have everyone write and post to their own personal sites because everyone attending reaches a different audience, and then we'll come together post-hackathon/blogging to write something / summarize the event for the blog. I really like that angle you're thinking about — a colleague of mine at a past job wrote this up about a similar background and experience. I'm looking forward to seeing what you write.

@MelodyKramer Ah, that makes it more clear! I'm attending the hackathon on a scholarship from Wikimedia Nederland, and I will already write a report for that, on the chapter's wiki. I can write it in English and in lively blog style, so that my text can be easily re-used. I will also shoot and include photos!

@nichtich yes, you can first publish the post on your blog, and then end of the hackathon we will reach out to you about the collaborative post for the Wikimedia blog @Spinster that already sounds wonderful!